AGENDA FOR FORAGE CONFERENCE (Farmerrancher version)

							AGENDA FOR FORAGE CONFERENCE
(Farmer/rancher version)

Sept 3rd (Cook Theater, Cloud County Community
College, Concordia KS)
8:00-8:40     The future of forages

8:45-9:25     Groomin’ the rumen: understanding rumen microbes

9:30-10:10    Developing a yearlong pasture program

10:15-10:55   Our feces eating friends: how dung beetles contribute to the ranch

11:00-11:40   Options for lowering overwintering costs

11:45-12:25   Field to bunk: reducing nutrient losses during harvest, storage, and feeding
              of stored forages

12:25-1:00    Lunch (provided)

1:00-1:40     Finding the key to higher weaning weights: improving late summer forage
              quality

1:45-2:25     Managing nitrate toxicity problems

2:30-3:10     Can legumes provide all the nitrogen needed for a productive pasture?

3:15-3:55     Diagnosing and controlling internal parasites

4:00-4:40     Tapping the potential of grazing natures protein powerhouse: alfalfa

4:45-5:25     Selecting the best cool-season grass for your operation

5:30-6:30     Controlling pasture weeds and brush
Sept 4th Farm tour (Two miles south of Courtland KS,
west side of blacktop; Courtland is 14 miles west of
Belleville KS on Hwy 36, then one mile south)
             Tour stops:

             Cool-season grass demo blocks (30 different varieties)

             Male-sterile forage sorghum to be used for standing winter feed

             Pasture of eastern gamagrass, recessed crown alfalfa,
             birdsfoot trefoil, and chicory

             Pasture of forage soybeans

             Summer annual grass demo blocks (forage sorghums,
             sorghum-sudans, cowpeas, lablab)

             Pasture of low-alkaloid reed canarygrass, alfalfa, cicer
             milkvetch, and sainfoin

             Pasture of brachytic 6-gene brown midrib sorghum-sudan
             and lablab